Wow took me all summer to actually finish this. It feels looooong. I definitely enjoyed it, and think it has superb writing and acting which generally translates to "great story!" but I have no idea what to make of the pacing. I feel like I spent the first 30 hours with no real sense of stakes, just rambling from place to place, meeting a bunch of new characters who seem to not really have much to do. They're all great characters! But why is this happening?!

Need to go read some narrative postmortems I think. It's very character-driven, all about personal growth and personal journeys, which ought to be great. Maybe it's just an expectation mismatch. I really do think there's some fantastic character work going on.

I also continue to think the "no camera cuts" thing is simultaneously one of the biggest technical flexes in gaming while also largely being a colossal waste of time, given that you go into a menu every minute or so anyway. What an odd commitment.